Woman&#39;s curtain-drawers.



M. M. PRINDALL.

WOMANS CURTAIN DRAWERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.28, 191s.

Patented July 7, 1914.

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' woman's orm'i nm naawnns Specification of Letters Patent. Applicationfiled March 2s, 1913. Serial No. 757,458.

Patented July '7, 1914.

. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTHA M. PRIN- DALL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, resident of Lynn, in the county of .Essex and State ofMassachusetts, have made a certain newand useful Invention in WomensCurtam-Drawers; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains' to make and use the invention, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of the invention is to provide drawers suitable for theprotection of expensive skirts in womens dress, and it consists in thenovel construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, Figure 1 is aplan view of the blank or attern for the drawers; Fig. 2 is a plan viewof the drawers spread out inflflat position, and Fig. 3 is a centralvertical section of the drawers;

The pattern is in very simple form, where.- by the entire pair of.drawers, exceptthe facings, are designed to be cut in one piece.' Inthis pattern the leg portions, indicated in the accompanying drawings,illustrating the invention by thenumeral 2, extend in oppositedirections in the flap from the middle or body portion 3, which isprovided with a front U-shaped bay or cut-out 4 for the waist, and witha rear flap orcurtain 5 be tween rear bays or recesses 6, these rearrecesses being opposite the fronts orplacket edges of the drawers,indicated at 7.v The placket edges are in line with each other and atright angles, substantially, to the end portions of the waist bay. The'waist bay is entirely out out of the upper or front portion of thepattern and its ends form an angular junction. with the ends of theplacket edges 7 which are in linewith each other and form ortions of theupper edge of the pattern.- he rear or lower edgeof the patternis soout? that the curtain por- Y ,tion 5, is substantially below the rearseam edges of the leg ortions'. The curtain is therefore not. con ned byjunction with the waist bay, but hangs freely from the ends of the legseams.

In cutting the goods the outer or free edge 8 of the flap shouldbe takenon the selvage, a selva'ge edge being much preferable along this part,not only to facilitate laundrying, but also to avoid inconvenience inthe use of the garment, which would be apt to arise from a hemmed edgein this position.

In making the garment the waist recess or bay 4 is provided with theusual reinforcement, a band as at 9, and the recesses or cut-outs 6,adjoining the ends of the curtain edge are also reinforced, as indicatedat 10. The front edges 7 are also reinforced. The front and rear edges12 of each leg are stitched together in a suitable manner to form legseams, and such lace or other ornamental trimming may be applied as thetaste of the wearer may indicate.

The drawers are easily laundried, being doubled flat lengthwise, andhave a continuous rectilinear fold extending from end to end of the legportions through the middle portion, whichis integral or solid, thewaist bay being entirely in front of this line. The curtain andplackets, being connected to the leg seams, there is a tendency to drawthe lower portionof the curtain inward, and in this way to aid thepurposes of the article;

When the drawers are longitudinally folded, the plackets are parallel tothe line of the fold. In the use of these drawers, the edges of thecut-outs or recesses 6, being most subject to wear, are strengthened byreinforcing asindicateda The free curtain portion is designed tofallorhang in rear being somewhat drawn forward or inward below, in suchwise as to protect the skirt or other garment behind'it from beingstained, es-

pecially in sitting down, through the unexected appearance of themenses. A. pair of rawers of this kind may also be made in severalpieces, but by making the article of one piece the extra goods providedfor in the curtain portion is so disposed as to avoid the inconvenienceof unnecessary seams and folds. v What Iclaim is:

\ A pair of drawers, including a solid middle portion and oppositelyextending leg ortions, and having a continuous rectilinear old of saidmiddle portion and leg portions, a waiit bay entirely in front of saidfold, and having its ends substantially at In testimony whereof I aflixmy signature, I

right angles to the line of said fold, a cur-. in presence of twoWitnesses.

tain portion lateral indentations in connection therewith, and(flackets, parallel to the MARTHA PRINDA-LL' line of said fold, anconnecting the ends of \Vitnesses: C the Waist bay to the ends of saidindenta- W. J. L. MCBRIEN, tions, at the ends of the leg seams. JOHN L.PRINDALL.

